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谁知道关于微笑的英文故事?救急
The smile
by Antoinede Saint-Exupery
I was sure that i was to be killed . i became terribly nervous. i fumbled in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes. which had escaped their search. i found one and because of my shaking hands, i could barely get it to my lips. but i had no matches, they had taken those. i looked through the bars at my jailer. he did not make eye contact with me. i called out to him,"have you got a light?" he looked at me , shrugged and came over to light my cigarette. as he came close and lit the match , his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. at that moment, i smiled . i don't know why i ded that. perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was because, when you get very close , one to another, it is very hard not to smile . in any case, i smiled. in that instant. it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. i know he dedn't want to, but my smil leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too. he lit my cigarette but stayed near. looking at me derectly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
i kept smiling at him. now aware of nim as a person and not just a jailer. and his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension too.
"do you have kids?" he asked.
"yes, here,here.'
i took out my wallet and nervorsly fumbled for the pictures of my family. he , too, took out the pictures of his plans and hopes for them. my eyes filled with tears. i said that i feared that i'd never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. tears came to his eyes, too, suddenly , without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out , out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. there, at the edge of town, he released me . and without another word, he turned back toward the town.
my life was saved by a smile . yes, the smile--- the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people. i really believe that part of you and that part of me could recognixe each other, we wouldn't be enemies. we couldn't hat or envy of fear.